An ambitious French startup wants to reinvent file hosting as a peer-to-peer service, cutting out the costs associated with servers and eliminating the storage and speed limitations of current generation technology.
In a move that could represent a gauntlet in a battle for mobile office suite share between Google and Microsoft, the former company acquired document, presentation and spreadsheet editor Quickoffice, which is available for most smartphone platforms.
Dropbox is clearly watching Google Drive, because they’ve bumped their free storage offering up to match it.
Fresh on the heels of Google‘s Dropbox-like remote storage service, Google Drive, is a furor over what the fine print in the service’s user agreement means for users’ intellectual property.
On Tuesday, Google confirmed rumors that the company has been working on an online storage system similar to Dropbox, and launched the service to some users.
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